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The shortage of water in the reservoirs spaniards during the last months of 2021 marked the first weeks of the...

"An older farmer like me can continue to work mechanically, but younger generations do not have that experience.”

According to a press release issued by USDA, the Government of the United Kingdom has asked USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection...

After a very wet summer, slow and difficult harvesting conditions in Belgium, Holland and Germany.After one of the most humid...

A fourth-generation potato farming and marketing family in North Dakota is leaping into a new era of electronic potato grading....

Take some time to consider how these trends will affect your day-to-day business in the years ahead:

Irving Farms of Caribou and Corey Rioux & Sons of Fort Kent will receive more than USD180,000 to help install...

The area of seed potato crops for certification in Ireland increased to 299 hectares in 2021, helping to fill a...

Potatoes are one of the two main staple crops in Flagler County and farmers are busy preparing the ground and...

At the European level, the effects of various lockdown measures over the last few weeks are becoming more apparent, with...

East Anglia's farmers and food producers must overcome a raft of challenges in 2022 says Gary Ford, regional director of the National...

DETROIT (Reuters) - John Deere & Co said on Tuesday it will start commercial delivery this year of technology that...

This year, the potato growers from North Rhine-Westphalian (NRW) in Germany, harvested 1.92m tons, a total which is 13.3% higher...

After the closure of the world-renowned Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research facility last week, following the loss of the potato...

Precision engineering is woven into Jacob van den Borne's business operations. New techniques and applications will also be launched in 2022....

The latest United Potato Growers of Canada (UPGC) report shows that the total cultivar storage holdings, the fresh holdings (those...

FERA is launching Enigma, an R&D model for the agri-food sector and is inviting interested parties to register for the...

APH Group will supply storage-, grading and washing installations for three new French fries factories.

An official from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says the investigation into the discovery of potato wart in two...

“As a conservation farmer, the practices we use on our farm are allowing us to ‘kidnap carbon’ from the atmosphere...

A FOOD manufacturer which advocates the use of potatoes in its plant-based products has secured a EUR 25 million investment...

Dr. Rashmi Singh, Scientist DST launching the AI based Mobile App developed by Research Scholar of Chandigarh University Amit Verma...

The latest Union Nationale des Producteurs de Pommes de Terre (UNPT) forecasts for the 2022-2023 potato campaign show that the...

Committed to its Market Access Program (MAP), Potatoes USA received USD5,242,949 from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign...

A BAN on potato exports from Prince Edward Island to the US because of potato wart is likely to continue...

In 2004, Steve and Bonnie Mackenzie-Grieve thought they were ready to slow down a little. Their two southern Alberta businesses...

The Indian Council for Agricultural Research’s Central Tuber Crop Research Institute (CTCRI) in Thiruvananthapuram has established frontline demonstration-cum-seed villages for...

NEW Zealand potato growers are being urged to get in touch with Biosecurity New Zealand if they find a new...

In 1951, a mere nine years after the government’s first potato dehydration facility began operations, a group of potato farmers...

Up to December 8, 2021, European potato export demand remains good, but orders are being canceled due to logistics, with...

EUROPEAN Potato Trade Association, Europatat, is calling on EU and UK policy makers to break the deadlock and reach an...

TRADE body, the UK and Ireland Fuel Distributors Association (UKIFDA) is urging more oil heated households in the farming community...

With its 456,000 tons of potatoes imported in the last 11 months, Uzbekistan has already set a new record of...

Article by Roger J. Stirnimann, Dipl.-Ing. agr., Dipl.-Ing. Wirtsch., Executive MBA, University of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences, Zollikofen (DLG)....

The LaJoie family has always been farmers—at least for as many generations as anyone cares to mention. But they haven’t...

Just before Christmas, there was information that nitrogen fertilizers became more expensive. The price of ammonium nitrate exceeded PLN 4,000. PLN per...

A NEW practical field, farm and lab guide for monitoring soil carbon has been launched to answer key questions for...

According to experts from the market, the Russian capacity for processing potatoes is set to increase by 50% in 2022,...

The winners of the CeresAwards 2021 are optimistic about the new year.

The impacts of climate change in Idaho will present challenges and opportunities to all sectors of Idaho’s economy — from recreation and...

The Canadian Potato Production for 2021 has been estimated by Statistics Canada to reach 6,891,024 tons, showing a YOY (Year-On-Year)...

George Crapo grew up in Parker, Idaho, where, from a young age, he developed a deep and abiding love of farming...

SPEAKERS at the recent CropTec Show in Peterborough explored the latest thinking on soil health, crop nutrition and crop protection...

Recently, Lay’s has announced a vodka made in part with the same potatoes used for their potato chips, making the...

MP Richard Thomson, representing the constituency of Gordon in the House of Commons, has again pressed the UK Government on the...

YIELD alone is no longer the driver of economic success and growers need to seek a balance between quality yield...

TagZ, an Indian start-up founded in 2019, has brought to India a chip-making technology that produces tasty potato chips, while...

Four and five generations on, August’s descendants now own and operate Heartland Farms, which has become one of the largest...

The AHDB Petitioners – vegetable, flower and potato growers in the UK who voted to abolish a statutory levy on...

CUPGRA's 32nd Annual Cambridge Potato Conference, which will see speakers challenging potato businesses and researchers to develop their vision for...